DBUPhysicist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, 59, is a world famous physicist and climate researcher. After working in Germany and California, he was appointed founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in 1991, which he still leads today. He is also a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Potsdam and a visiting professor at Oxford University.

Publicly, Schellnhuber has been associated with the issue of climate change and its effects. He is a member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the 2007 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Since 1992, he has been one of nine members of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). In 2006 Chancellor Angela Merkel and Lars Göran Josefsson, the CEO of European energy utility Vattenfall, appointed Schellnhuber to his current post as the federal government's top advisor on climate protection.

Schellnhuber has published more than 210 professional articles and more than 40 books on solid-state physics, the dynamics of complex systems, climate impact, geological system analysis and sustainability. In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II awarded him the title "Commander of the Order of the British Empire" (CBE) for his work.

Yes he is certainly a very accomplished scientist(but that doesn't negate the fact that with this proposal he's gone off the deep end). And what sort of life do you think you'll have with one quarter the amount of energy and food you currently use?

DBUPhysicist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, 59, is a world famous physicist and climate researcher. After working in Germany and California, he was appointed founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in 1991, which he still leads today. He is also a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Potsdam and a visiting professor at Oxford University.

Publicly, Schellnhuber has been associated with the issue of climate change and its effects. He is a member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the 2007 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Since 1992, he has been one of nine members of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). In 2006 Chancellor Angela Merkel and Lars Göran Josefsson, the CEO of European energy utility Vattenfall, appointed Schellnhuber to his current post as the federal government's top advisor on climate protection.

Schellnhuber has published more than 210 professional articles and more than 40 books on solid-state physics, the dynamics of complex systems, climate impact, geological system analysis and sustainability. In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II awarded him the title "Commander of the Order of the British Empire" (CBE) for his work.

THis asshole is a POS...... Another elitist who wants to dictate how people live... Except himself and his ilk of course...

here is one of my favorite quotes from it....

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Why did you base your calculations on an equal division of the total permissible quantity of CO2 among the world's total population when each country is different from the next?

Schellnhuber: Our basic principle is that all humans have equal rights to the atmosphere. This is a basic right. This is also what German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decided at a meeting in 2007. Why should a German be allowed to emit more CO2 into the atmosphere than someone from Bangladesh? No, we must divide the quota equally and fairly among all nations.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: But in Germany, for example, we need central heating more often than in warmer climes.

Schellnhuber: And in hot countries they may want to use air conditioning more often than in Germany, which also requires a lot of energy. This year New Delhi had temperatures of up to 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) for months on end. If you consider how much fuel we use to heat in winter, it would be fair for them to use fuel-powered coolers.

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Ya know what the POS is basically saying? he is saying do as we tell you and not as we do.... I wasn't aware central air was in a lot of homes in bangladesh......

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